Carolina Nursing PhD students win Outstanding Poster Award at ISCR Conference

Three women smiling and posing in front of a scientific poster titled “Use of Mind-Body Interventions for Stress Management in Pregnant African American Women” at an indoor conference or event. — *Taleah Frazier, Dr. Cheryl Giscombe and Alyssa Porte*

Third-year PhD students Taleah Frazier and Alyssa Portes co-presented their poster, “Use of Mind-Body Interventions for Stress Management in Pregnant African American Women: Findings From a Scoping Review,” at the International Society for Contemplative Research (ISCR) Annual Conference held on November 4 at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

The poster, led by Frazier, detailed findings from her dissertation research exploring mind-body interventions for stress management in pregnant African American and Black women. At the conference’s closing ceremony, Frazier was honored with the 2025 Outstanding Poster Award for their presentation—one of only three posters recognized with this distinction.

“I feel honored to have accepted an award for our poster and believe that it serves as a token of the hard work that our authorship team put into the review,” said Frazier. “I thank my coauthor and cohortmate Alyssa, and my advisor Dr. Giscombe, for their assistance and support with designing the poster for the conference.”

The poster was co-authored by four Hillman Scholars, including Frazier and Portes (current PhD students) and Latesha Harris and Charity Lackey (SON PhD program graduates), with Dr. Cheryl Giscombe serving as faculty co-author and advisor.